Hi Julian, On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Julian Reschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dominique Pfister wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> After having had a first look at the CMIS specification, I decided to >> start off with the jcr-cmis implementation. I therefore created a >> jcr-cmis sandbox with the following initial structure: >> >> jcr-cmis >> -- + server >> ---- + rest >> ---- + ws >> >> I intend to start working on the server/rest subtree (where the REST >> API binding will reside). Any comment/feedback and - even better :) - >> any contribution/participation on the the server/ws subtree >> (containing the Web Services Binding) are more than welcome! > > I guess it'll be harder to find volunteers for the ws part :-) > > Two thoughts: > > 1) At some point of time, we'll have to define a mapping from CMIS to JCR > (relatively simple) *and* the other way around (now that's harder). So, how > to map identifiers (types, paths), what to do with the CMIS relation objects > and so on. Should we start a design document (a text file) for that, or > would a Wiki work better?
That's a good point. It makes no sense to have both bindings - REST and SOAP - translate their calls into JCR API, but rather have a generic CMIS to JCR adapter that can be plugged into either of the two binding implementations. > > 2) I think that having a separate connector for CMIS in addition to WebDAV > should be avoided. We essentially would mint different HTTP URLs for the > same thing. So maybe not now, but at a later point of time it would be good > if we could merge the new functionality into the existing WebDAV stack. Hm, I'm not sure about the two things being actually the same: looking at CMIS' REST binding, I see custom headers (e.g. CMIS-type), special content types (e.g. application/atom+xml) and a HTTP body consisting of XML documents with root elements other than "DAV:". I'm not familiar with the extensibility of the WebDAV connector, so I'll just have to ask, whether you think that this is still inside the scope of the WebDAV connector? Dominique > > BR, Julian >
